BetStars Sister Sites 2026

BetStars sister sites are PokerStars Sports, PokerStars UK and PokerStars Casino, all operated by Stars Interactive Limited under active UK Gambling Commission account 39108. BetStars itself closed as a standalone brand in April 2020, and betstars.uk now redirects permanently to PokerStars Sports. Flutter Entertainment owns the wider group, but Sky Bet, Paddy Power and Betfair use separate operators, accounts and customer registrations.

BetStars Quick Verdict

BetStars is a closed brand rather than a struggling one, and that distinction matters when you are deciding what to do with a search for it. The sportsbook was folded into PokerStars Sports in April 2020 by a parent company that wanted fewer names to advertise, not because of a licence problem, a payout scandal or a regulatory penalty. Everything the brand ran on, the trading licence, the pricing engine, the settlement rules and the customer database, still exists and still serves British bettors, only under the PokerStars badge.

So the honest answer for anyone landing here is that there is nothing to join and nothing to reactivate. If you kept an account through the transition it is a PokerStars account now, and if you are simply looking for a book that feels like BetStars did, the closest match is the same product under its new name, with the larger Flutter Entertainment stable as the next step out.

BetStars Licence Snapshot

• Brand status: retired April 2020, domain still live as a redirect.
• Destination today: pokerstars.uk/sports (301 permanent redirect).
• Licensee: Stars Interactive Limited, Gambling Commission account number 39108, shown on the live PokerStars UK site and active on the Commission register.
• Registered address on that footer: Douglas Bay Complex, King Edward Road, Onchan, Isle of Man, IM3 1DZ.
• Ultimate owner: Flutter Entertainment plc, following the completion of the Stars Group takeover in May 2020.
• Brands still trading on licence 39108: PokerStars, PokerStars Casino and PokerStars Sports.

Best BetStars Sister Sites

Review updated – 31 July 2026

PokerStars Sports is the direct continuation of BetStars. PokerStars UK and PokerStars Casino are the live same-operator products, while Full Tilt is another retired name that redirects rather than a casino you can join.

PokerStars UK

PokerStars UK is the flagship of the same Stars Interactive Limited stable that BetStars belonged to, and it is where most of BetStars’ old sports-betting customers ended up after the switch to PokerStars Sports. It runs the larger poker and casino side of the business alongside the sportsbook.

Practically, this is the site the redirect drops you on. The sportsbook, the poker client and the casino lobby all sit behind one wallet, so a deposit made for a Saturday accumulator can be moved onto a cash table or a slot without a second transfer. Our fuller PokerStars UK review goes through the poker side, the rewards programme and the group connections in detail.

PokerStars Casino

PokerStars Casino covers the slots and table-game side of the same UK-licensed operator, complementing the PokerStars Sports book that BetStars was folded into back in 2020.

The old pokerstarscasino.uk address has itself been retired into the main site, and now lands on pokerstars.uk/casino rather than a standalone casino domain. That lobby leans heavily on live game shows and Megaways slots, with a handful of titles built for PokerStars that you will not find at the Sky or Paddy Power casinos. The PokerStars Casino page has the detail on games and terms.

Full Tilt

Full Tilt deserves a mention because the Gambling Commission brand register still lists it against the same 39108 account, which makes it look like a live option in most databases. It is not one. Fulltilt.uk answers with a 301 redirect to the PokerStars UK homepage, exactly as betstars.uk does, so the Full Tilt name now survives only as a signpost pointing at PokerStars. There is no separate Full Tilt page here because there is no separate Full Tilt site to review.

How We Separate Same-Licence Sisters From Group Stablemates

Sister-site pages get muddled when a brand belongs to a group as large as Flutter, so it is worth being explicit about the two categories used below. A same-licence sister shares the operator name and Gambling Commission account number printed in the footer, which usually means shared accounts, shared verification and shared responsible-gambling limits. A group stablemate shares only an owner, and behaves like a completely separate bookmaker with its own signup, its own deposit limits and its own self-exclusion settings.

For BetStars the same-licence list is short, because Stars Interactive Limited only ever traded a handful of names in Britain. The group list is enormous, because Flutter owns some of the best-known betting brands in the country. Mixing the two together would make BetStars look like it had two dozen sisters, which is the sort of claim that reads well and helps nobody.

Flutter Entertainment Stablemates UK Bettors Use Instead

These brands are not BetStars sisters in the licensing sense, and each one needs its own registration and its own deposit limits. They are, however, the practical alternatives for anyone who wants a UK sportsbook or casino from the same ownership group, and the licence details below reflect each brand’s current operator and Commission account.

Sky Bet

Sky Bet is the group’s mass-market sportsbook and the closest thing to a straight swap for what BetStars was trying to be. Its footer now names SBG Sports Limited under Gambling Commission account 67370, which is worth noting because older sister-site lists still attribute Sky Bet to Bonne Terre. Coverage of football, racing and the request-a-bet style markets is deeper than the PokerStars book, and the Sky Bet page covers the rest of the Sky family.

Paddy Power

Paddy Power carries the broadest promotional calendar in the group, with money-back specials and price boosts running most weekends. Its footer lists four separate licensed companies for British customers, PPB Counterparty Services Limited on 39439, PPB Entertainment Limited on 39426, PPB Games Limited on 39411 and PPB GE Limited on 52819, which is a reminder that a single visible brand can sit on several accounts. The Paddy Power review goes into the sportsbook and games side.

Betfair

Betfair is the group’s exchange, and it is the one option here that offers something BetStars never did, the ability to lay a selection rather than only back it. The same PPB companies appear in its footer, joined by Betfair Casino Limited on 39435 and TSE Malta LP on 39561. Anyone who used BetStars mainly for horse racing should look at the Betfair page and the wider Betfair group brands.

Sky Vegas, Sky Casino And Sky Bingo

The Sky gaming brands share Bonne Terre Gaming Limited on account 65519, which the Sky Vegas footer publishes in its full form as 065519-R-339675-002. They are casino and bingo products rather than sportsbooks, so they answer a different question than BetStars did, but they are the busiest gaming sites in the group. See Sky Vegas, Sky Casino and Sky Bingo for the individual write-ups.

Sky Poker And Tombola

Sky Poker runs on the same 65519 account as the Sky gaming brands and is the only realistic domestic alternative to the PokerStars client, though the traffic gap between them is large. Tombola sits slightly apart as a bingo specialist that builds its own games in-house and states on its own site that its games are licensed and regulated by the Gambling Commission. Both are worth a look through the Sky Poker, Tombola and Tombola Arcade pages, with the Tombola group page covering the rest.

BetStars Review And Current Redirect

BetStars launched in 2015 as The Stars Group’s first move into sports betting, built to sit alongside the established PokerStars poker room. It ran as a standalone sportsbook brand for around five years, covering football, horse racing and the usual major sports markets for UK bettors.

In April 2020, as part of The Stars Group’s wider restructuring ahead of its merger with Flutter Entertainment, the BetStars brand was retired and every BetStars site, including the UK domain, was redirected to the new PokerStars Sports brand. The move was designed to bring sports betting under the same PokerStars name as the group’s poker and casino products rather than run it separately.

What the old BetStars address loads today: the PokerStars Sports lobby at pokerstars.uk/sports, captured 27th July 2026.

Anyone who types in a BetStars web address today lands on PokerStars Sports, which carries over the same Stars Interactive Limited UK Gambling Commission licence and account verification that BetStars customers used. There is no separate BetStars account any more; existing customers use their PokerStars login across sports, poker and casino.

At the time it closed, BetStars had built up a solid reputation for horse racing and football coverage, with competitive odds and a best-odds-guaranteed style offer on UK racing that carried over in spirit to PokerStars Sports. Anyone searching for BetStars promo codes or account help today is redirected straight to PokerStars Sports support, since the account systems, KYC checks and payment methods are fully shared across the rebranded platform.

The BetStars retirement was part of a much bigger shift for its parent company. The Stars Group agreed to be acquired by Flutter Entertainment, the group behind Paddy Power and Betfair, in a deal worth around $6 billion announced in October 2019 and completed in May 2020. Folding BetStars into PokerStars Sports just before that deal closed brought the sportsbook under one consistent brand name across every market The Stars Group operated in, not just the UK.

The Thinking Behind The Rebrand

The decision was never presented as a rescue. Then chief executive Rafi Ashkenazi framed it publicly as a move to promote two master brands, PokerStars and Sky Betting & Gaming, and to stop spending marketing money teaching customers a third name. The same logic retired BetEasy in Australia around the same period, and the switch was pushed through in the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy within days of each other rather than market by market.

Read alongside the takeover timetable it makes sense. A group about to be absorbed by Flutter had little reason to keep funding a challenger sportsbook name with modest recognition when the poker brand it sat next to was one of the most recognised in online gambling anywhere.

What The Old Sportsbook Looks Like Now

The book that BetStars customers were moved onto is still recognisably the same operation. The A to Z list on the live lobby runs from American football and athletics through to volleyball, with football, tennis, basketball and rugby union pinned as the popular markets and horse racing sitting in the main list rather than in a separate racing product. Bet builder markets, in-play betting, cash out and popular accumulator shortcuts are all on the front page, and live streaming is offered on racing and tennis.

Pricing is respectable without being a headline reason to choose it. Independent margin tracking puts the football book at roughly seven per cent overround, which lands squarely in the middle of the British market rather than at the sharp end, so a bettor chasing the best price on a Premier League match will still be better served shopping around. Where the site earns its keep is convenience, because the sportsbook, poker tables and casino share one balance and one set of deposit limits.

Bonuses And Promotions After The Rebrand

This is the section where most surviving BetStars content on the internet goes wrong. Pages still circulate advertising BetStars welcome bets and free-bet codes, and some of them quote wagering requirements of 35x, 45x or 60x. Those figures describe promotions that stopped existing in April 2020, and in any case no UK-facing casino bonus can carry terms like that now, because the rules that came into force in January 2026 cap wagering requirements at 10x. Treat any BetStars bonus offer you find as archive material.

On the live side, the picture in July 2026 is unusually plain. The PokerStars Sports promotions page currently lists no new-customer sign-up offer, which matches what independent bookmaker reviews have been reporting for some time and is a genuine mark against the book compared with Sky Bet or Paddy Power. Existing customers are pushed towards the rewards programme, challenges and the store instead of a headline welcome bet.

The casino side does run a published new-player offer, and its terms are refreshingly readable. Players opt in and choose between two challenges: deposit between £20 and £49.99 and wager £20 on slots for a £20 instant bonus, or deposit £50 or more and wager £50 for a £50 instant bonus. The challenge has to be completed within three days of opting in, the bonus and anything won from it expires three days after being credited if the wagering is not finished, and converting it to withdrawable cash means earning redemption points on a defined list of slots. The offer has been running continuously since 27th October 2025 and is limited to players who have never deposited with any PokerStars brand.

Payments, Withdrawals And Account Checks

Payment support at the rebranded book covers the methods a British bettor expects: Visa and Mastercard debit cards, Apple Pay, PayPal, Skrill and Neteller. Minimum deposits sit around the £10 mark depending on the method chosen, with a £10 floor on withdrawals as well, and the site charges nothing for moving money in or out.

Withdrawal speed depends entirely on the route. Electronic wallets are the fast option and can land within hours, while card and bank transfers are quoted in the three to ten working day range, which is unremarkable for a large UK operator but slower than the same-day payouts some smaller casinos advertise. E-wallet withdrawals also generally have to go back to the method used for the deposit, so a player who funded an account with a card cannot simply switch to a wallet for the payout.

Verification is the friction point worth planning for. Identity and address checks are frequently triggered at the first withdrawal request rather than at signup, and complaints logged with independent dispute services show accounts restricted while documents are reviewed. That is standard practice under Gambling Commission rules on source of funds and age verification, but it catches out anyone who deposits, wins and expects an instant payout. Uploading identity documents before the first withdrawal is the simplest way to avoid the delay.

Licensing, Safety And Player Protection

The licence position is straightforward and, unusually for a closed brand, entirely healthy. Stars Interactive Limited holds Gambling Commission account 39108 and that account is active, and the Commission lists its remote betting and casino permissions as active. The same footer names Rational Intellectual Holdings Limited as copyright holder, gives the Isle of Man registered address, and carries the Flutter group logo alongside the Gambling Commission seal, GamStop, GamCare, BeGambleAware and IBAS marks.

That matters for anyone chasing a historic BetStars issue. Because the licence never lapsed and the brand was retired rather than surrendered, a dispute or dormant balance from the BetStars era is still the responsibility of a live, licensed operator, and can be escalated through PokerStars customer service and then to IBAS as the operator’s alternative dispute resolution provider. Self-exclusion applied through GamStop covers every brand on the licence, so an exclusion set up on PokerStars also blocks the sportsbook that BetStars turned into.

What Players Say About The Rebranded Book

Player sentiment on the site BetStars became is mixed in a fairly predictable pattern, and it is worth setting out the criticism as plainly as the praise. On the positive side, reviewers consistently rate the platform as trustworthy, point to round-the-clock live chat, and single out the tidy layout of the sportsbook and the strength of the poker product sitting next to it. Nobody seriously questions whether the operator pays out.

The complaints cluster in three places. Support channels are thin, with live chat the only real route and no published telephone number or email address, which frustrates players who want a paper trail. Withdrawals attract the most negative feedback, usually where a verification review lands on top of a payout request and the account is restricted while documents are checked, and a handful of published disputes describe several days passing before a response arrives. The third recurring gripe is the lack of a sportsbook welcome offer, which makes the book a hard sell against stablemates that advertise one every weekend.

Set against a closed brand, that profile is reassuring rather than alarming. The BetStars name disappeared into an operator that is well capitalised, properly licensed and boring in the way a regulated bookmaker should be, even if it will not win any awards for generosity.

Closed And Redirected Brands In This Group

Three names that appear in older BetStars research no longer resolve to sites of their own, and each one is worth recording so nobody wastes time chasing them. BetStars itself, on both betstars.uk and betstars.com, redirects into the PokerStars Sports lobby. PokerStars Sports has no separate home either, as pokerstarssports.uk now folds into the same sports section of the main PokerStars site. Full Tilt, listed as an active brand on the Gambling Commission’s own brand table, redirects to the PokerStars UK homepage.

The pattern is consolidation rather than collapse. Stars Interactive Limited has spent six years pulling every name it owns onto a single domain, and the redirects are the visible evidence of that. None of these closures involved a licence being suspended or revoked, which is the distinction that matters if you are trying to work out whether a defunct brand was shut down or simply absorbed.

BetStars FAQs

What are BetStars’ sister sites?

BetStars was a Stars Interactive Limited brand. Its closest sisters, both live today, are PokerStars UK and PokerStars Casino.

Who owns BetStars?

BetStars was operated by Stars Interactive Limited, part of the Flutter Entertainment group since 2020.

Does BetStars hold a UK Gambling Commission licence?

BetStars itself no longer exists as a separate brand, but the licence it operated under carries over to PokerStars Sports and the wider PokerStars family, all under Stars Interactive Limited.

Is BetStars available to UK players?

No. BetStars closed in April 2020 and every BetStars web address now redirects to PokerStars Sports, which UK players can use with their existing PokerStars account.

Where does the betstars.uk address go now?

It answers with a 301 permanent redirect to pokerstars.uk/sports, the PokerStars Sports lobby. Betstars.com follows the same redirect chain to the same destination.

Can I still log in with my old BetStars details?

Only if that account was migrated into PokerStars in 2020, in which case it is now a PokerStars login covering sports, poker and casino. Accounts that were closed or self-excluded at the time were not revived by the rebrand, and dormant balances have to be chased through PokerStars support rather than any BetStars channel.

Was there ever a BetStars casino as well as the sportsbook?

The BetStars name was used for sports betting, with casino and poker sold under the PokerStars brand alongside it. Anything advertised today as a BetStars casino bonus is recycled copy from before April 2020 and cannot be claimed.

Which live brand is closest to what BetStars offered?

PokerStars Sports, because it is the same book on the same licence with the same trading name behind it. If you want a sportsbook with a bigger promotional calendar, the Flutter stablemates Sky Bet, Paddy Power and Betfair are the obvious comparisons.